Page 262, line 7, _for_ "L10,032,000," _read_ "L9,952,500"; line 10, _for_ "L1,312,500," _read_ "L1,392,000." Page 275. table, last column, line 2, _for_ "L3,734,000," _read_ "L3,575,000"; line 7, _for_ "L10,371,000," _read_ "L10,212,000"; line 14, _for_ "L11,665,500," _read_, "L11,506,500"; in text, last line but one of page, _for_ "L10,032,000," _read_ "L9,952,500." Page 276, line 5, _for_ "L500,000," _read_, "L340,000"; table, last column, line 2, _for_ "L3,316,000," _read_ "L3,236,500"; line 3, _for_ "L6,182,000," _read_ "L6,102,500"; line 9, _for_ "L8,737,500," _read_ "L8,658,000"; last line, _for_ "L10,032,000," _read_ "L9,952,500." Page 277, line 2, _for_ "L1,672,500," _read_ "L1,752,000"; line 7, _for_ "L1,312,500," _read_ "L1,392,000"; line 8, _for_ "L10,032,000," _read_ "L9,952,500"; line 12, _for_ "L1,672,500," _read_ "L1,752,000"; footnote, line 1, _for_ "L1,793,000," _read_ "L1,952,000." Page 279, line 8, _for_ "70.75," _read_ "70.48." Page 282, sixth line from bottom, _for_ "L1,312,500," _read_ "L1,392,000." * * * * * Page 246, line 8 and footnote, and page 295, lines 21-31: A temporary measure has been passed (Surplus Revenue Act, 1910), under which the Surplus Commonwealth Revenue is returned to the States on a basis of L1 5s. per head of the population of each State. * * * * * Page 288, line 2, _omit_ "like the Isle of Man and the Channel Islands." These islands have distinct local tariffs, but they cannot be said to be wholly under local control. THE FRAMEWORK OF HOME RULE CHAPTER I THE COLONIZATION OF IRELAND AND AMERICA I. Ireland was the oldest and the nearest of the Colonies. We are apt to forget that she was ever colonized, and that for a long period, although styled a Kingdom, she was kept in a position of commercial and political dependence inferior to that of any Colony. Constitutional theory still blinds a number of people to the fact that in actual practice Ireland is still governed in many respects as a Colony, but on principles which in all other white communities of the British Empire are extinct. Like all Colonies, she has a Governor or Lord-Lieutenant of her own, an Executive of her own, and a complete system of separate Government Departments, but her people, unlike the inhabitants of a self-governing Colony, exercise no control over the administration. She possesses no Legislature of her own, although in theory she is supposed to possess sufficient legislative control over Irish affairs through representation in the Imperial Parliament. In practice, however, this control has always been, and still remains, illusory, just as it would certainly have proved illusory if conferred upon any Colony. It can be exercised only by cumbrous, circuitous, and often profoundly unhealthy methods; and over a wide range of matters it cannot by any method whatsoever be exercised at all.